DP2
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/72#DP2
Properties
Instance of
Decision Point Id
DP2
Decision question
When XYZ Corporation terminated Doe's contract with full payment and instructed him not to render a written report of his adverse findings, what was Doe's professional obligation with respect to documenting and preserving those findings?
Focus
Engineer Doe's obligation to resist XYZ Corporation's instruction to suppress the written report of his adverse findings — and whether his verbal advisory to the client was sufficient to discharge his professional documentation duty or whether a separate, non-waivable obligation to produce and preserve a written record persisted independently of the client's instruction.
Option1
Resist XYZ's suppression instruction by producing and preserving a written report of adverse findings, delivering it to XYZ Corporation and retaining a copy, and notifying the State Pollution Control Authority of the findings and the suppression instruction
Option2
Produce and retain an internal written memorandum documenting the adverse findings for professional records purposes without delivering it to XYZ or the authority, treating the verbal advisory as having discharged the client-facing obligation while preserving a contemporaneous record for potential future use
Option3
Accept contract termination and the instruction not to render a written report, treating the verbal advisory as sufficient discharge of the professional obligation to inform the client, on the basis that no written report was contractually required and the client's scope-of-work authority extended to the form of deliverables
Role
Engineer Doe Faithful Agent Trustee Engineer
TTL
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case72:DP2 a proeth-cases:DecisionPoint,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "DP2" ;
proeth:decisionPointId "DP2" ;
proeth:decisionQuestion "When XYZ Corporation terminated Doe's contract with full payment and instructed him not to render a written report of his adverse findings, what was Doe's professional obligation with respect to documenting and preserving those findings?" ;
proeth:focus "Engineer Doe's obligation to resist XYZ Corporation's instruction to suppress the written report of his adverse findings — and whether his verbal advisory to the client was sufficient to discharge his professional documentation duty or whether a separate, non-waivable obligation to produce and preserve a written record persisted independently of the client's instruction." ;
proeth:option1 "Resist XYZ's suppression instruction by producing and preserving a written report of adverse findings, delivering it to XYZ Corporation and retaining a copy, and notifying the State Pollution Control Authority of the findings and the suppression instruction" ;
proeth:option2 "Produce and retain an internal written memorandum documenting the adverse findings for professional records purposes without delivering it to XYZ or the authority, treating the verbal advisory as having discharged the client-facing obligation while preserving a contemporaneous record for potential future use" ;
proeth:option3 "Accept contract termination and the instruction not to render a written report, treating the verbal advisory as sufficient discharge of the professional obligation to inform the client, on the basis that no written report was contractually required and the client's scope-of-work authority extended to the form of deliverables" ;
proeth:roleLabel "Engineer Doe Faithful Agent Trustee Engineer" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-26T15:59:05.607844"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 72 Extraction" .
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2026-02-26T15:59:05.607844
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ProEthica Case 72 Extraction